The leaders of Muslim community and religious organizations signed a joint document on December 11, 2017 - The Social Concept of Muslims in Ukraine. At a solemn meeting, representatives of Islamic organizations spoke about the history of this document.

The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.

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… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…

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The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.

Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.

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Muslims continually arrested in occupied Crimea

In the Russian- occupied Crimea, the village of. Baidary (Orlyne, Sevastopol) the raids were conducted early in the morning on May 10, 2018. According to their results, several Crimean Muslim Tatars were arrested, reports “Religion in Ukraine” citing Islam.in.ua.

According to "Krymska solidarnist", a witness saw how two young men and a woman taken out of their homes and planted in a minibus with dark windows without the number plates. After that they were taken away in an unknown direction. According to the eyewitness, in the yard at this time there were unknown people who were dressed in civilian clothes, behaved extremely aggressively, did not allow them to come close to the house.

As it became known, the detainees are the two Seitosmanovs brothers, Ernest and Enver. Both are not married. They have no families. They are also cousins ​​of Nuri Priumov, who is serving a sentence on charges of participating in a terrorist organization. The detainees are practicing Muslims. Human rights activists consider the accusations of Russian security forces have been fabricated.

It was also reported that in 2015, Ernest Seitosmanov had already been searched. In the winter of 2015, four Crimean Tatars (the Sevastopol group in the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir) were arrested in Sevastopol. The defendants in the case did not admit their guilt and claimed that the case was politically motivated, and their criminal prosecution was due to the fact that they were Crimean Tatars. According to local activists, Ernest Seitosmanov actively supported the families of Sevastopol political prisoners (Ruslan Zeytullayev, Nuri Primov, Ferat Sayfullaev, Rustem Vaitov).